Students and Alumni | Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good

Seeking Justice Through Journalism

This week’s blog is a reprint from the May ’21 issue of the USF Magazine. Former Sarlo Scholar, Lucas Waldron ’13, is another McCarthy Center alum named on USF’s 30 Under 30 list! As a part of our Global Sarlo program, Lucas traveled to Bolivia to work on community-based sustainable development projects abroad. Read on…

Working for our Essential Workers

This week’s blog is a reprint from the May ’21 issue of the USF Magazine. Miriam Uribe ’17, former Advocate for Community Engagement (ACE), is another McCarthy Center alum named on USF’s 30 Under 30 list! As an ACE, Miriam served as a year-long liaison between USF students, faculty, and our community partner, Generation Citizen,…

Working With the Best of the Best

This week’s blog is a reprint from the May ’21 issue of the USF Magazine. Laura Flores ’18, our former USF in D.C. Fellow, is one of USF’s 30 under 30 graduates who are making their mark on furthering Leo’s legacy. Flores was a part of our 2017 cohort, working full-time as a legislative and…

Our Virtual Salute

Watch our year end celebration of graduates, staff, and community partners as we finish the ’20-’21 academic year on a high note! As the semester comes to a close and commencement celebrations begin, we want to take a moment to say congratulations to our ’20-’21 graduates! While students could not have planned that this school…

Poetry as a Unifying Force

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, Jacqueline Ramos, our Program Manager of Community-Engaged Learning and poet, speaks on the importance of poetry in activism. Also the Community Empowerment Activist Instructor, Ramos encourages our CEAs to approach social justice issues in all lenses, including poetry. Read on for her piece, “Inauguration”, and her view…

The Path to SF Environment

In support of Climate Action Month in April, we want to highlight a community partner, co-educator, and mentor-supervisor for the McCarthy Fellows in San Francisco. Huy Le is the Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Used Oil Program Coordinator on the Toxics Reduction & Healthy Ecosystems team with the San Francisco Department of the Environment. He…

Driven to Create Change

In this week’s blog, meet our newest staff member, Priana Aquino! She has been working as our Communications Assistant for the last 8 months, managing our social media and helping to produce newsletters for the McCarthy Center. Aquino was recently interviewed by the Office of Development to discuss her accomplishments amid the pandemic. Read on…

Community Vision Driven by Data

Our Engage San Francisco Director, Karin Cotterman, was instrumental in the creation of The Fillmore/Western Addition Gleeson Resource Page. The page features photos, videos, and news stories that document the history of The Fillmore. In this week’s blog, Karin answered a few questions on what prompted the compilation of these resources, and how they highlight…

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